Diameter of lumenal vesicles secreted by microvilli of brush border enterocytes

Value 90 nm Range: 30-170 nm
Organism Mammals
Reference McConnell RE, Higginbotham JN, Shifrin DA Jr, Tabb DL, Coffey RJ, Tyska MJ. The enterocyte microvillus is a vesicle-generating organelle. J Cell Biol. 2009 Jun 29 185(7):1285-98. p.1291 left column, 2nd paragraphPubMed ID19564407
Method Selection of particles of the appropriate size and composition from rat and mice intestinal cells was validated by negative-stain transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Western blot analysis.
Comments See BNID 102775, 102706
Entered by Uri M
ID 105557